HARMAN Smart Delta

Enabling fast, secure and cost-effective automotive software updates through reduced update size and rapid apply time.

Smart Delta is an advanced differential update solution for the automotive industry that delivers technology for efficient, secure, and scalable over-the-air (OTA) updates. It creates and applies only the essential differences between software versions, reducing update sizes by up to 99% and with apply times up to 17 times faster than competitors. Highly compatible across OEM platforms, highly reliable and safe. Trusted by over 40 OEMs and deployed in more than 80 million vehicles.

Product Benefits:

360° Coverage

Applicable to updates from cloud to car, and vice versa (Smart Delta Stream for vehicle data and logs).

Industry's Smallest Delta Package

Reduces update size by up to 99% boosting update speed and reducing data cost substantially.

Short Apply Time

Ensures very short apply time and applies updates while system is in use. Both from cloud to car, as well as from car to cloud.

Flexible Architecture & Integration

Supports diverse ECUs/OSs, as well as cloud/on-prem systems simplifying deployment and adapting to OEM infrastructure.

Safe & Efficient Ecosystem

Updates can be easily resumed or reverted in case of failure enabling unparalleled update stability.

Architecture Flexibility

Supports any OS such as Android, Linux, CQn, Integrity, Autosar and more
Supports container formats such as Dockers and Podman
Supports on-prem and cloud-based (AWS, Azure, etc.) configurations
Provides drop-in RBUA (Update Agent) for easy integration

End-to-End Security

Update process can be paused or cancelled at any time
Fail Safe ™ & Fast Resume ensures quick update resume if interrupted
Revert to source version without re-sending

Powerful UX & Support

User Authoring Tool helps to set parameters and avoids configuration errors
Tailore made customization possible to improve results
24/7 HARMAN support for any issue

Architecture Flexibility

Supports any OS such as Android, Linux, CQn, Integrity, Autosar and more
Supports container formats such as Dockers and Podman
Supports on-prem and cloud-based (AWS, Azure, etc.) configurations
Provides drop-in RBUA (Update Agent) for easy integration

End-to-End Security

Update process can be paused or cancelled at any time
Fail Safe ™ & Fast Resume ensures quick update resume if interrupted
Revert to source version without re-sending

Powerful UX & Support

User Authoring Tool helps to set parameters and avoids configuration errors
Tailore made customization possible to improve results
24/7 HARMAN support for any issue

OTA

Manage vehicle software securely and efficiently with over-the-air (OTA) solutions.